cosby

I spent time explaining First Nation politics to someone who is not American today. I was asked why the reservations are not shown on the map if they are not US territory.  Good question.  Probably because the US prefers not to see that.

But they are a sovereign people.  They have treaties with the US government.  Treaties are only made between nations.  And of course, there is the point that the US government has broken all but two of the treaties, and the two that are still recognized have not been entirely honored.  The government continues the work started by our family in 1620.

I guess the violations just seem pervasive today.  We inflict it on our friends and family, up close and personal, and we inflict it as a people on anyone who has something we covet.

Have you been reading all of the allegations against Bill Cosby?  More and more women are coming forward to say "Me too."  It is so hard to admit you have been raped, to have to stand and have people ask what you did to deserve it.  I really understand why these women stayed  quiet.  It would be hard to take on the beloved and wealthy Bill Cosby by oneself.  And if a woman does not know there are others, and there is no one to support, to say...Me too...then we stay silent and feel disgusted and used. We feel dirty.

I may have written this before, but I was thinking about the young Muslim women, who after a sexual attack are considered  dirty.  If all of these women, and girls, were clean before men touched them, then obviously it's the men that are dirty.  Remove the dirty men, and the girls stay clean.

Right?

So obviously something happened to Bill Cosby to destroy his humanity.  But what he has done, the lives and psyches he has destroyed - it's not okay.

Hope all is well in the desert.  Missing you!

Love and hugs,

Clare